CCTV News:Spring Festival travel rush 2020 will be officially launched tomorrow (10th). At 10: 00 am today (9th), the State Council Information Office held a press conference on Spring Festival travel rush 2020. The heads of seven departments answered questions from reporters on the situation and work arrangements in Spring Festival travel rush.
Spring Festival travel rush will be launched tomorrow in 2020 for a total of 40 days.
In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will start from January 10th to February 18th, with a total of 40 days, and the number of passengers sent nationwide will reach about 3 billion. Since this year’s Spring Festival is the earliest Lunar New Year in the past eight years, Spring Festival travel rush will have a situation where student flow and work flow are superimposed from the beginning.
It is estimated that the number of passengers sent nationwide will be 3 billion.
Of the 3 billion passengers in Spring Festival travel rush, there were nearly 2.5 billion passengers on roads and 440 million passengers on railways, up 8% year-on-year. Civil aviation was 79 million passengers, up 8.4% year-on-year; 45 million passengers were transported by water, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%. The proportion of high-speed rail, civil aviation, private cars and other modes of travel in Spring Festival travel rush continues to rise.
Railway e-tickets basically cover high-speed rail and intercity railway.
This year, in Spring Festival travel rush, e-tickets for railways basically cover high-speed rail and intercity railways, and all passenger trains fully promote online standby ticket purchase.
12306 extended ticket sales for half an hour can be verified by face recognition.
The 12306 ticketing system extends the ticketing time by half an hour every day, and can be verified online through face recognition.